Actually like this post from our friend Saddened.
Warrington's approach is fine, the problem is the staff making the decisions and setting the culture at the top of the club and the coaching. They're investing heavily in staff, players and their academy. Their academy has been criticised for years, but it's vastly improved. They're getting a lot of the big reputation players from Yorkshire and Cumbria now instead of Leeds/Saints/Wigan and they are putting together consistently good youth sides. They lack in bringing them through at the moment as Powell just wasn't about that, he's got more of a Mourinho approach.
They invest heavily in players. They use their quotas and exemptions to the full and they really push the boat out. As I've said the selection of players and perhaps more importantly character is wayward however. But you really can't fault their determination, just their decisions.
If they were to sack Fitzpatrick and replace him with a competent CEO and a Director of Rugby type who could oversee recruitment and youth integration and a competent coach, they would win Super League regularly. Culture is another area that they need to improve on, but that comes from the top. When you've got an absolute chancer like Fitzpatrick at the top of the operational functioning of the club, it's not hard to see why it's unprofessional. There are some horrific tales about how lenient the club are with the players and their non-rugby activities. Last season when they started losing, a lot were blaming it on Powell telling the players they weren't allowed to miss training whenever they needed to in order to deal with their own businesses. They said it was like an amateur side, where certain sessions would have 8 or 9 missing as they were off doing other things.
They have spent more money than anyone over the last 25 years and will continue to do so. Wigan will now match them after their changes. Eventually Warrington will realise their errors and fix them. If they don't, you'd have to question Moran's sanity.
